Capture the MO*MIT - More Of MIT... It is important to venture back in time, to search for evidence of the role and experience of blacks since the Institute opened its doors in 1865. The project’s continuing objective is to place the black experience at MIT in its full and appropriate context, by researching and disseminating a varied set of materials and by exposing a larger community of interests — both inside and outside MIT — to this rich, historically significant legacy.

Saturday, April 16, 2016

New Superweapon in the Fight Against Cancer

Dr. Paula T. Hammond is on the nano
particle forefront of assembling and developing a superhero-type
medical therapy to eliminate cancer in the body safely. Her groundbreaking research is paving the way for new approaches to neutralizing and eliminating the most potent cancer types known.

Professor Hammond was elected into the
2013 Class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is also
the recipient of the 2013 AIChECharles M. A. Stine Award, which is
bestowed annually to a leading researcher in recognition of
outstanding contributions to the field of materials science and
engineering, and the 2014 Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Chemical
Engineering Research. She was also selected to receive the Department
of Defense Ovarian Cancer Teal Innovator Award in 2013. She has been
listed in the prestigious Highly Cited Researchers 2014 list,
published by Thomson Reuters in the Materials Science category. This
list contains the world's most influential researchers across 21
scientific disciplines based on highly cited papers in the 2002-2012
period. She is also included in the report: The World's Most
Influential Scientific Minds 2014.

Professor Hammond received her S.B. in
Chemical Engineering from MIT (1984), and her M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Tech (1988), and earned her Ph.D. (1993) in Chemical Engineering from MIT.

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UNESCO Historical Definition of the term "Blacks"

Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop's book, "The African Origin of Civilization: Myth of Reality" uses the noun "blacks" on numerous occasions to identify the indigenous people of "KMT", (Ancient Egypt). KMT's english translation is defined as "land of the blacks" by Dr. Diop since its publication in 1955. The term is also used collectively in referring to people of the African diaspora.

Almost 20 years later, Dr. Diop along with Dr. Theophile Obenga (linguist), presented at the Cairo Symposium sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The Symposium was held at Paris, France from January 28 -- February 3, 1974, and convened 20 of the world's top Egyptologists to debate the race of the founders of ancient Egyptian civilization. Dr. Diop then became regarded as the leading scholar on African civilization studies in the French and English speaking world.

The original transcript (136 pages) of the symposium can be found at the following link:

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0003/000328/032875eo.pdf

About

The Blacks at MIT History Project
mission is to research, identify, and produce scholarly curatorial
content on the black experience at MIT since opening its doors in
1865. This Project was founded and is directed by Dr. Clarence G.
Williams, Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies + Planning and Former Special Assistant to the President, MIT. He is an
innovator in higher education for four decades and a recipient of a
Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration and Counseling Psychology.

The project’s continuing objective is
to place the black experience at MIT in its full and appropriate
context, by researching and disseminating a varied set of materials.
It is also exposing a larger community of interests — both inside
and outside MIT — to this rich and historically significant legacy.